Jon Kennedy,
Nanty Glo Home Page webmaster and owner, is a former teen and campus minister.
He began his journalism career as teen columnist for the Nanty Glo Journal
and its sister weekly newspapers from 1957 to '62 and became the Journal's
third editor in 1962 at age 20. He has edited other newspapers and magazines,
and more recently, webzines, ever since. His articles have appeared in the Los
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Finally!

Jonal entry
940 | Friday, December 2, 2005

Today's
photo is Ted Shrock's Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycle, parked in front of
the Niner Diner in Nanty Glo. I took the photo during my visit in October and
decided to share it to the Forum members on behalf of the Geri-chicks, who were
planning a motorcycle roadtrip at the time. Ted and his wife Gwen are owners of
the Diner.

I'm baaa-ack. Please remind me to pay
the phone bill next month. What a nightmare!

And ironically,
little has changed on the "big news" I was waiting to break here a month
ago. But a little has. The contract did come a week ago. I have signed it and
returned it to the publisher, but I haven't had it returned from them yet with
their signature, so it still may be a bit premature to start dancing in the streets.
But as you've probably guessed, if you cared enough to give it a minute's thought,
it's a contract to do a book. It's 85,000 words, 20 chapters, all of which is
due by mid-January. I'm already 25 percent done so at this point I'm not panicking
about the shortness of the deadline. I should have about 10 days off work over
Christmas (three of which are vacation days and the others paid holidays and weekend
days). But because of the deadline, I will probably not try to send more than
one of these Jonal Postcards a week through the duration of the project, and Judy
Rose has generously offered to continue sending her pages and Frank Charney's
Sunday posts through the duration. I'll share more details when thinks are firmer.

Meanwhile,
I'll try to get the new winter dressing on the Home Page by the end of today and
start decorating for Christmas.

Thought
for today

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